Re: Gnopernicus

[Simon Tennant <simon imaginator com>]

Michael - I have two setups running:

	Home: radeon 8500 (the model with the vga out and DVI out)
	Unfortunately no 3D support yet.

	Work: G400 AGP (Single head model) and the Matrox Millenium II PCI (also
	single head model)

S.
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On Aug 23, Michael Meeks wrote:

>Hi Bill,
>
>On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 12:02, Bill Haneman wrote:
>> We had lots of trouble actually tracking down cards/drivers that would
>> work, when we last tried to do this... we were unsuccessful in obtaining
>> cards that were "known to work"; maybe you have better information?
>
>	My friend Simon has a very pretty setup at home with a commodity card I
>believe; Simon - what hardware are you running for multi-head / Xinerama
>?
>
>>   At
>> any rate I wasn't directly involved so I don't have better info on the
>> issues we (Sun folks) found.  But I believe we were looking at
>> "multi-card" setups and not "multi-head cards".  This sounds like a good
>> solution if the cards are readily available as you say.
>
>	I think multi-card is pretty much doomed to failure, what with the
>prevelance of the (point to point) AGP bus; but there are an increasing
>number of dual output single cards out there. And I believe some triple
>output ones [ better for gaming not to have the cross-hair split between
>screens I think ;-].
>
>	HTH,
>
>		Michael.
>
>